Hi Alfredo! On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.desi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently noticed in my Arch Linux machine that tracker-miner-apps makes > a relatively big CPU usage. Digging into the terminal and the documentation > I made some tests with the terminal and tracker daemon consistently tells me > that the Applications miner is stuck at 69%. > > A few questions: > > Why is this happening and how can it be solved? > What's the exact purpose of this specific miner? > Can a specific tracker be disabled? How would this affect the GNOME Shell > experience?
Sorry you're having problems with it. I'm not sure what would cause it to get stuck -- one possible cause is database corruption. I think there was a bug in some release recently that could cause corruption; try renaming ~/.cache/tracker/meta.db to something else, then restarting all Tracker processes (`tracker daemon --terminate; tracker daemon --start`). you would probably also get lots of errors in the journal if the cause of the issue was database corruption causing SPARQL queries from the miner to fail and go crazy. The applications miner is actually pretty useless, as far as I know, it was used on Maemo/Meego to provide the list of installed applications, but it's not used at all in GNOME Shell. Finding the list of installed applications is pretty simple (look for all .desktop files in a some well-known locations), so it doesn't really need a Tracker miner anyway. We could probably disable it by default. If you want to disable it just on your machine, you can remove the file /etc/xdg/tracker-miner-apps.desktop. Sam _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
